My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
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AI
Who actually reads my llms.txt?
Using Nginx access logs to see which crawlers touch llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and what that does and does not prove about LLM training or GEO.
Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.
When a client asks for SEO and needs GEO
Clients ask for SEO when their real problem is that machines do not understand who they are or where they operate. This is how a small agency sells GEO work without overpromising.
Schema.org markup and entity recognition in 2026
How site-wide Schema.org markup and an llms.txt file shifted Aftertype from vague impressions to clearer entity recognition in 2026.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
CSS
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
Letting AI refactor one legacy stylesheet
I pointed an AI model at a 1,200-line legacy Sass file and asked it to refactor everything to Tailwind. The useful part was mechanical syntax cleanup. The risky part was everything that depended on design, layout, and accessibility intent.
Content breakpoints for a single hero component
A category hero only started working once its breakpoints came from the heading, cards, and nav, not from tablet and phone widths.
Why I Still Hand‑Code Every Hover State
I still hand-code every hover state instead of trusting component libraries. Not because I like pain, but because that tiny interaction layer decides how the site actually feels.
The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
Frontend
My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
Deriving a Ghost theme palette from one accent color
Ghost gives themes a single accent color, but you can still get a full palette out of it using CSS color-mix() and oklch for hover, border and background states.
Upgrading three Tailwind projects to v4 in one sprint
I upgraded three client sites to Tailwind v4 in one week. Most utilities survived quietly. The custom gradient border plugin did not.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
The grid decision that rewrote my lightbox logic
Locking aspect ratios on the Aftertype themes grid forced a rewrite of the lightbox and breakpoints, and made the gallery better at selling design.
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
Productivity
Two Macs, One SSD, and the Sync I Stopped Trusting
I juggle a Mac Studio, a MacBook Air, and a T9 SSD by giving each type of file a single source of truth instead of trusting sync to do everything.
The 6:40 AM Morning Kickstart protocol
At 6:40 AM the Morning Kickstart stops being about vibes and starts being about routing. It looks like wellness, but it behaves like project management.
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
Why I finally deleted NotePlan
NotePlan looked perfect on paper, but the interface kept getting in the way. Dropping it for a simple 4‑app stack made work feel lighter and tasks easier to manage.
Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica
How I use Habitica to turn cardiac rehab and daily routines into an RPG: a 6:40 circuit as a Daily, WHOOP recovery as XP, and a shutdown ritual quest.
The Make automation that was slower than manual
A Make scenario that cross-posted Ghost articles to Dev.to looked efficient. API churn, broken canonicals, bad timing, and key exposure made manual faster.
Biohacking
Three months after the jump rope protocol
Three months after the August YaoYao jump rope protocol, the strict plan is gone but the rope and the heart rate ceiling stayed. This is what held up.
Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica
How I use Habitica to turn cardiac rehab and daily routines into an RPG: a 6:40 circuit as a Daily, WHOOP recovery as XP, and a shutdown ritual quest.
A 4‑Week Jump Rope Protocol for Cardiac Conditioning
A 4‑week jump rope protocol using YaoYao, WHOOP heart-rate zones, and Todoist to give cardiac patients a controlled way to rebuild conditioning.
A Month of Ignoring Daily Body-Fat Numbers
I hid the body-fat tile on my smart scale for 30 days and watched only a 7-day rolling weight average. The results were calmer mornings and steadier habits, not worse progress.
The boring training week I can actually repeat
My training week is aggressively boring: a fixed 20-minute kettlebell session, rec softball as a social anchor, wildcard days that can be nothing, and recovery as the actual plan.
The metric I stopped letting ruin my morning
For months my HRV score decided if I was allowed to feel competent that day. A 90-day experiment changed it from a verdict into one quiet input among many.
Tools
Two Macs, One SSD, and the Sync I Stopped Trusting
I juggle a Mac Studio, a MacBook Air, and a T9 SSD by giving each type of file a single source of truth instead of trusting sync to do everything.
Who actually reads my llms.txt?
Using Nginx access logs to see which crawlers touch llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and what that does and does not prove about LLM training or GEO.
How I Split Social Posts Between Buffer and Manual Updates
How I use Buffer to handle predictable updates for my one-person theme studio, what I still post by hand, and where I draw the line so social does not become a second job.
Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
Build in Public
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
How I Split Social Posts Between Buffer and Manual Updates
How I use Buffer to handle predictable updates for my one-person theme studio, what I still post by hand, and where I draw the line so social does not become a second job.
Using the Ghost forum to earn trust before selling themes
Using the Ghost forum as groundwork for a theme studio: picking your questions, avoiding self-promotion, and living with the tension between helping and selling.
Pricing Northline and Azimuth as a new Ghost studio
How I priced Northline and Azimuth for Aftertype’s launch as an unknown Ghost theme studio, and why copying established makers’ prices felt wrong.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
Lazy Loading Images Almost Tanked My Core Web Vitals
I broke my own Core Web Vitals by being clever with lazy loading. Here is the ugly LCP data, what actually fixed it, and the image loading rules I use now.
Thoughts
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
A New Chapter: Biohacking My Way to a Healthier Me
As the year ends, I’m excited to share the beginning of my weight loss journey—a journey I’m
What I Hand Over To Next Year’s U12 Coach
At the end of a U12 season, not everything should follow the team into next year. This is what survives a season change, and what belongs to this group only.
When a client asks for SEO and needs GEO
Clients ask for SEO when their real problem is that machines do not understand who they are or where they operate. This is how a small agency sells GEO work without overpromising.
Using the Ghost forum to earn trust before selling themes
Using the Ghost forum as groundwork for a theme studio: picking your questions, avoiding self-promotion, and living with the tension between helping and selling.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.